The first photo ever taken......

[Anonymous]

Here it is. Pretty cool to think it took 8 hours to expose this image.

The first acclaimed photograph, taken in 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Point de vue du Gras.



If you care, you can read him here:

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce,

[Anonymous]

That looks like one of those horrible camera feeds that supposedly caught a ghost walking across the field of vision.

[Anonymous]

Fatal Frame'D

[Anonymous]

Crappy but still cool.


I'm easily fascinated by such things .

[Anonymous]

Very cool ^_^

[Anonymous]

What is in the picture ?  I understand that this is the first picture ever but it's so poor quality that I can't even tell what it's a picture of.

Is it the front of a boat ?  A piece of lemon pie ?  An open zipper ?  A UFO ?  A fox ?

Whoever figures it out wins a year-supply of Turtle Wax for dentures.

[Anonymous]

Whoever figures it out wins a year-supply of Turtle Wax for dentures.

The 16 x 20 cm view...shows the courtyard of his country estate Le Gras in the village of St. Loup-de-Varennes, and was taken from an upper window...Niépce repeated the view once more on a copper plate in 1829, and sent it to [Louis Jacques Mandé] Daguerre before signing a partnership agreement with him on 14th December. Neither the earlier nor the later picture has survived...


I really needed that year supply of Turtle Wax for my Dentures......

[Anonymous]

Ah yes Daguerre.  I heard of that guy.  That's the guy that is often associated with early photography.

I knew this Jeopardy knowledge would come in handy at some point :-)

[Anonymous]

Jeopardy knowledge strikes again!

Anyways cool lookin picture, hard to make out at first though.

[Anonymous]

that's crazy, we've come SO far

[Anonymous]

Interesting...

[Anonymous]

speaking of jeopardy knowledge,... whos been watching and has seen Ken Jennings? That guys the Biggest erd i have ever seen.... he knows toooooooo much useless information

[Anonymous]

Someone needed to tell him to move his thumb away from the lense!

[Anonymous]

Hey look there is my great great grandfather!

[Anonymous]

So, whers this pic now? I'll guess its in some dusty photo album that no one ever looks at.